Do you have a problem?
Laugh!!!
Of course you have problems! We all have problems! Life is a problem…laugh! We solve one problem and there’s another one just coming up behind.
We could always seal ourselves up in a empty room so that we don’t have to do anything, and no one could get to us. We’d have no hope or fears, and things would just go on around us.
Laugh!!!
We have just described essence.
Laugh!!!
Essence doesn’t have any problems. The only problem is when essence identifies strongly with this mind and body into which it has been forced, because of the karma created by our confused consciousness.
We have to learn to “carefree-cruise” in life, allowing problems to come and go…and not get too excited about anything…a bit like tantric sex!
Has that just caused another problem?!
Laugh!!!
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
Haha! Love the leap you took, using the description of living in an isolated room cut off from the world and so avoiding suffering to describe our essential nature! A clever twist – you do have a knack of doing that which brings me up short and makes me smile.
Thanks
Daisy
If we were only resting in emptiness, it would be as if we were stuck in an isolated room. That is why we need the aspect of awareness. Likewise, if we were only in awareness and forgot our empty nature, we would be stuck in the relative world. That is why we say, “Pure awareness”, which means empty, uncontaminated awareness.
These two – awareness and emptiness – must go hand in hand. They are a unity: by virtue of one, the other is known. This is the Middle Way.
Tony